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Do public health interventions crowd out private health investments? Malaria control policies in Eritrea (Inglês)

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This brief summarizes the do public health interventions crowd out private health investments? Malaria control policies in Eritrea for June-July 2009. The author analyze new data from a randomized control trial conducted in Eritrea which surprisingly ...
Exibir mais +This brief summarizes the do public health interventions crowd out private health investments? Malaria control policies in Eritrea for June-July 2009. The author analyze new data from a randomized control trial conducted in Eritrea which surprisingly shows the opposite: Indoor Residual Spray (IRS) encouraged net acquisition and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. The study finds that public provision of IRS does not crowd out private investment of malaria control in Eritrea. Public provision of spray does not reduce ownership or use of bednets, if anything, the spray led to an increase in preventative behaviors.
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